A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrates to use the night sky as a compass during ...

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant celestial body that may be a new dwarf planet, orbiting the Sun from more than twice the distance of Pluto. Found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced ...

Researchers believe that 2017 OF201’s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...

New data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has finally given astronomers new clues about how Pluto cools itself.

By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has been reporting on dwarf planets and their definitions since Pluto was demoted into that category. A sizable world has been found in a part of the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered a new small planet far from Pluto, expanding our understanding ... size of known dwarf planets and big asteroids like Ceres.Its orbit is extremely elongated, swinging ...

Here's what the planet was like as a child ... been thought of as fairly empty. NASA's New Horizons probe, which snapped pictures of Pluto and its moons in 2015, has since more than doubled ...

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies ... it has to be “gravitationally dominant”). Dwarf planets like ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun ... or even a primordial black hole—but nothing grips our human fascination like a distant planet, so far away from our solar system’s other ...

Image Credit: images of dwarf planets from NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of 2017 OF 201 from Sihao Cheng et al. DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION The Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently ...

Using his new username "Kekius Maximus ... of the general public and prominent figures like William Shatner — feel that Pluto's legacy as a planet should be preserved.One of the arguments ...